Angry home owners have blasted plans to build 70 new flats on Tyneside - claiming they will be another Byker Wall.

Angry home owners have blasted plans to build 70 new flats on Tyneside - claiming they will be another Byker Wall.

More than 60 people confronted bosses from developer Miller Homes during a site visit by North Tyneside councillors.

Protesters claimed the proposed row of seven-storey apartments, at Tyne Commission Quay, in North Shields, would be out of place.

Sarah Blayney, 27, of Watch House Close, said: "When the tourists come in on the ferries they crowd onto the deck to look at the marina.

"What are they going to think of North Tyneside if they see these flats? I think it's going to affect local tourism."

Miller Homes has permission to build 76 apartments at the site. The design will go before the council's planning committee soon. Miller Homes said: "The Government watchdog for design, said in a report to the council that the bulk, massing and height of the scheme are acceptable."